Beat your rugs!
Often, some of the old fashioned cleaning methods can be really effective. Rugs will add colour and warmth to any room and prove to be an effective way to soften large areas of hard flooring, but they do hold a lot of dust, grit, sand and soil. Regular vacuuming is a must, but hanging your rug over a line or branch and then rigorous beating will remove a lot of soil left behind by your vacuum cleaner.
We tend to find that more dry soil is found in rugs that live in rural areas, along with insects, beating rugs regularly will help remove dust mites, mite excrement, fleas and flea eggs, it can be a real stress relief after a busy day too!
Dry soil removal from your rugs will increase the life of your rug and improve indoor air quality. Colours can often dull because of increased soil levels in your rug.
Dry soil removal ~ Rodmell near Lewes, Sussex
In recent weeks we seem to be visiting Rodmell near Lewes on a regular basis, one job involved cleaning a very thick rug. Our normal rug cleaning process is to try and remove the maximum amount of dry soil before any cleaning takes place, introducing water to dry soil will cause a problem, immediately turning dry soil into sludge / mud.
A customer from Ringmer surprised me a while ago after thorough vacuuming and dry soil removal methods had been employed, I managed to remove far less grit, sand and dirt than usual, I commented to my customer about this, who walked into the garden grinning, showing me her old tennis racket, which was used to beat the rug each week. Sometimes the old ways really do work!
After cleaning, the rug looked considerably better, colours had been restored and the fibres were clean and fresh, with no residue.